3 comments:

Tom Payne
said...

Well done team NZL, but bear in mind that the calculations you've done do not give a fair result to larger teams.

Larger teams have more pilots so averaging the scores simply dilutes the scores of the best pilots with those of the worse. So, larger teams will be penalised relative to small teams with your averaging system.

Picking the worst three pilots from each time obviously is unfair on the larger teams since by sheer force of numbers they will have more lower-scoring pilots than smaller teams.

However, this still penalises smaller teams since the larger teams have have someone who wouldn't have been selected if they could only send three pilots. So, using FAI ranking as a proxy for what the team would have been if each nation could only send three pilots you end up with the fair table:1 GBR 7503 Goldsmith, Thomas, Ham2 CZE 7347 Brauner, Ohlidal, Vrbensky3 CHE 6418 Maurer, Wyss, Aebi4 NZL 6409 Middendorf, Gaw, Rold5 FRA 6025 Cazaux, Blondeau, Caron6 SVN 5717 Valic, Podobnik, Valic7 NOR 5629 Dale, Saebu, Helgesen8 ESP 5607 Martinez, Bonet, Morillas9 USA 5388 Belcourt, Cohn, Mccune

The CZE lose Petra since she's ranked below Vrbensky which drops their score. It's impressive that even without her they'd still be 2nd overall.

Hi TomThanks for your analysis. An earlier post noted that NZL would be coming fifth if the best three pilots were used to determine the rankings. The "worst three pilots" comparison was done very much tongue in cheek! : )

However you analyse it we all can agree that the Kiwi team is doing really well.CheersKris